Recycle old posts for traffic

Recycle your old post that readers had enjoyed reading and appreciated information that helps the new readers after many months later.

But unfortunately, in a way our sites are structured, old posts always leave our website home page after someday as well as they leave our visitors radar too.

Reason for recycle old posts:

• You can expose your articles to more readers now comparing to when you posted it previously.
• When your new articles makes you in trouble, old articles can be used as a life saver.

Here are few technique how you can recycle old posts:

Re-share on social media sites:

Simply add more information to the post and change the date to bring your post to home page. Share on social media so that more readers get a notification for new changes. It’s a good idea to promote on Twitter, Facebook and Google Plus.

Read Also: Get free traffic to your blog

Link to a old post:

While creating a new post always make a link to related old posts so that readers get a overview of article you are referring to. For too many posts you can use several plugins that helps you to auto interlinking of your site.

Use related post:

Add a relates posts section that helps you to promote your old posts. This may value your site SEO through internal linking.

Read Also: Internal Link Building

Make your old post in a sidebar:

You can create a sidebar widget through which you can show some of your old posts. Like slideshow or simple image you can mark up old posts in a single view.

Make most commented posts in a sidebar:

Make your popular post in a sidebar that received most comment from readers. This can increase more readers when they get a chance to be in a front row.

All these are very essential for promoting old posts as well as recycle the behavior of getting traffic. This strategy keeps promoting old content after a while when they are going too far from front row.